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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1926
Page
4
The issue lists publication details for The Watauga Democrat with editors R C Rivers and Rob Rivers and pricing terms for subscriptions and advertising. It notes the paper is published Thursdays by Rivers Printing Company and the August 12 1926 date.
The plan includes the American Legion Park with amusements and a bathing pool, a community building for civic groups, improvements to the telephone system and aims to secure telegraphic communication, and immediate steps to organize fleet lighting and fire services under city planning supervision.
Dr. Frank Crane cites Andrus Yonkers arguing ninety percent of Columbia graduates fail in professions and should pursue skilled manual work. He defends broad education as preparation for any life, notes many succeed with hands, and urges colleges to train both manual and intellectual talents for diverse careers. A town petition from Boone seeks improvements on Howard Street with shared cost.
The 1917 constitution based law bans foreign priests, restricts instruction to native form, dissolves existing orders, and forbids religious publications and political activity. It requires worship to be inside churches and hands control to authorities. The Catholic church faces broad enforcement and organizational changes amid tensions.
London reports say Frank Powers claims Lord Kitchener’s body was found and disinterred for burial in England. Lord Broome dismissed the claim, while Powers asserts identification by three decorations and Norwegian sailors’ records. Powers seeks Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s burial for the remains.
The graduating class will hold exercises in the school auditorium on August 19 at 7 30 PM. Ernest F Billings is president of a 26 member class including Jenny Brower Violet Cox Fannie Dobbs C K Foy Cordis Franklin Fay Funderburke Essie Goodnight Eunice Goodnight Mrs Isabel Heath Samuel Kelton Mary Jon A K Moore Ruth Moore Rae Niblock Max Phillips Annie Mae Rader Annie Mae Robinson Respers Roxdoy Loui Whitley Jennie Lee Destination. The farm average income rose to 648 dollars with a 24 dollar gain from last year.
A humorous portrayal where a woman judges a man like fabric selecting pattern color and fit. She tests him in various lights and settings, checks comfort around the waist, and concludes he will wear well and suit her style. The piece ends by inviting readers to ask any woman who owns one.
A fragmented excerpt questions a man who whistles at his work and feels unhappiness, hinting at a letter or note about mood and labor, with a clipped dialogue style reflecting a small newspaper item.
For sale about one hundred White Leghorn pullets from Tom Ber ron strain. Prices per hundred include White Leghorn at five dollars, Anconas eleven, Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks twelve, Buff Orpington and White Wyandotte thirteen. We ship promptly and pay postage. Acme Farms Farmville NC.
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